Uber despressing
SentrySteve
.txt Join Date: 2002-03-09 Member: 290Members, Constellation
.txt Join Date: 2002-03-09 Member: 290Members, Constellation
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<div class="IPBDescription">Stupid universe</div>I just got done watching “Unfolding the Universe” on the discovery channel. They said that the sun will keep getting larger and larger until it engulfs the earth and the earth will become just a flaming ball of crap. Then our solar system will collide with our neighboring solar system. Due to gravity the two major suns will then collide and make a black hole that is uber insanely large. And the plan this to happen to like 347234 other solar systems as well. So they said in 10,000,000,000 years that space will have been completely destroyed by all the black holes.
<span style='color:black'>When the end of the world comes, I want fam to know that I have always enjoyed fixing his oven.</span>
Uber sad.
<span style='color:black'>When the end of the world comes, I want fam to know that I have always enjoyed fixing his oven.</span>
Uber sad.
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Remember guys... On average something only has to go as long as you've already had it.
How do you figure? Just becuase it is quite some time in the future doesnt mean we will all die.
don't worry, i'm sure we will have either wiped out the universe ourselves, some aliens will have done it for us, or we'll actually manage to do a few smart things and we'll either prevent it from happening or get out of here before it's too late.
That is SO ripped from HHGTTG <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->
My friend is reading it and she reminded me that I needed to read that again... it was such a great book.
and ya, we will have wiped out the hyooman race by then.
There seems to be more pointing towards that the universe will expand 'infinitly' making the distances unbearable, rather than a 'Big Crunch' taking place.
You can either accept the fact that humans will die out sooner or later or just ignore it. And ignoring it isn't such a bad idea really, if you can't accept it. <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
Sentry steve : Did you hear the one about there being Mega-black-holes at the center of every galaxy (that's why the stars clump together)?
At least we know about this problem, so we have planty of time to deal with it (one way ot the other).
And there's all those cataclysimic natural disasters that wipe out 90% of all life on Earth roughly every 10,000 years. That's somthing to really worry about.
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Or maybe I'm simple and just don't care enough about this.. <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->
Our system, sol, consists of nine planets and our sun. I don't think it will be crashing into another galaxy without the rest of the Milky Way anytime soon. <!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->What a relief, when I say that title I thought someone had been dumped by their girl-friend or some other human tragedy.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I was thinking exactly the same when I first saw this thread, Chrome. <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
Light has no mass.
Gravity only attracts things with mass.
Why is light sucked into black holes by gravity...?
(Answers on a 4" x 6" postcard)
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For people who know the answer, this is a rhetorical post... i.e. i don't really care about the answer.
^ noted and ignored ^
Since light has energy (a unit of light energy is called a photon) it has an equivalent mass, defined by Einstein's famous relationship E=mc^2. Light is a unique thing--sometimes it acts like moving energy and other times like a particle.
To understand how gravity can bend and trap light, you must think in terms of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, which deals with gravitation. Before Einstein, the model of gravity was Newton's: gravity as a force that acts on matter with an intensity depending upon mass. But Einstein's model of gravity is one of curved space- time, with curvature dependent upon mass.
Light takes the shortest distance (and thus shortest time) between two points. In "flat" space, we see this as a straight line. But in curved space-time, the light appears to bend. I say "appears," because that's how it looks to an observer at a distance. When you're talking about relativistic stuff, you have to consider different viewpoints. If you were the light ray, you would see yourself moving in a straight line because space would appear to be "flat."
So a black hole doesn't really suck in light--it's intense gravitational field curves space-time so much that a straight line away from it leads straight back to it.
<span style='color:black'>Blackholes suck!</span>
and ya, we will have wiped out the hyooman race by then.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
You should pick up the new Adam's book released after his death. It is a compilation of the stuff he was working on at at the time of his unfortunate passing away. I just started reading it; seems very interesting. OH yea, the title is 'The salmon of doubt'
btw, I'm new here, so uhh.. hi. <!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo-->
42.
There seems to be more pointing towards that the universe will expand 'infinitly' making the distances unbearable, rather than a 'Big Crunch' taking place.
You can either accept the fact that humans will die out sooner or later or just ignore it. And ignoring it isn't such a bad idea really, if you can't accept it. <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo--><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I know. If we don't get some semi-self-sufficient colonies off planet soon we'll probably never get them set up. <!--emo&:(--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':('><!--endemo-->
That of coarse means we'd be stuck on earth with it's limited resources and already strained eco-system. Unless a major change occured in our attitudes if we don't have some good stuff up and running by 2100 greedy corps and stupid politicians will most likly end up having us all dead.
*Broadcast from the World Conglomoration*
"Good Morning, this is the president speaking... I have some grave news... well, theres been a bit of a screw up and we're all going to die... something about the ecosystem or some such that no one pays any attention to... yes yes, i know, major inconvieneance but what are you going to do? I'd like to remind all citizens that Fresh Air is still avalible to purchase for $£5000 per cubic meter. Oh, and you've got about 3 months until the earth just gives up and implodes... Sorry for the inconvineance and all that... Bye Bye, i'm off to Mars with all my other rich buddies... hahaha"
ya...
Stars blow up, then suck in, depending on their size. So, you're half right. <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
You could fall down and die tomorrow. Die. Dead.
Life didn't come with any guarantee, at least my didn't. <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo--> (The smiley is for setting the tone. As Ken once said, tone is everything.)
"Fresh Air is still avalible to purchase for $£5000 per cubic meter."
That reminds me of one of the old Carl Barks' classics, the one where the Duck family went looking for a viking helmet which in short gives the finder the ownership of America, and with power-corrupted ideas of making everyone in the US wear gadgets to measure how much air they breathed, paying for every liter.
* Hats off for Barks
Before we know it, our sun will become a white dwarf from a fantasy story.
or we could have even less luck and we will be all enslaved by a alien race
(that is the reson why we don't send signals into space)